Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

Americans want a Peace Dividend, but their leaders won’t give it to them. Despite multiple polls showing broad support for cuts in U.S. defense spending, a sort of anti-democratic bipartisanship has emerged in Washington, where both Republicans an...   read more

 The office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) gutted a much-publicized ethics law earlier this year by creating a huge loophole for family members, although the Congressman insists the change was inadvertent and promises to fix it....   read more

Residents of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, have fought the building of a new mosque for more than two years, during which opponents have said Muslims are a threat to American democracy.   When the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, which has been operat...   read more

 Banking representatives have dominated meetings with federal regulators charged with implementing the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, leaving reform advocates with considerably less time to make their case.   Large ba...   read more

The Obama administration violated the U.S. Constitution last year when it ordered airstrikes that killed three Americans in Yemen, according to a lawsuit brought by family members of those who died.   The drone attacks launched by the Central In...   read more

Federal law enforcement officers are not apprehending immigrants like they used to do, arresting the lowest total in almost four decades during 2010.   Apprehensions for immigration violations numbered 516,992 two years ago, which was down dra...   read more

The foreclosure crisis has become a crushing problem for older Americans, more than a million of whom have lost their homes since the financial crisis.   About 1.5 million individuals age 50 and older lost their houses between 2007 and 2011, w...   read more

Being married, as compared to merely cohabitating with one’s partner, allows both mates to live longer, but whites benefit far more than African-Americans, according to a recently released study authored by two sociologists. Put another way, tho...   read more

Federalism—the division of power between federal and state governments—is making the nation’s electrical grid less safe and more vulnerable to attack by thieves as well as by terrorists. According to a new report released by the Government Accou...   read more

As Congress mulls whether or not to re-authorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has admitted that the government’s use of the Act has violated the constitution...   read more

Texas’ obsession with underground drilling for natural gas has created a giant gap in the federal government’s border patrol defenses against drug smuggling.   Across a large swath of remote land stretching from the border into east Texas, dri...   read more

Having grown tired of the military’s stonewalling, a U.S. senator this week released thousands of documents pertaining to the decades-long water contamination at a key Marine Corps base.   Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), chairman of the Sen...   read more

Political contributions totaling millions of dollars made during the 2007-2008 election cycle have been erased from a federal database maintained by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).   According to three university academics studying camp...   read more

The White House has been dragging its feet over rules implementing a major food-safety law, according to supporters of the legislation.   With broad bipartisan support, Congress adopted the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2010. The law was in...   read more

As Matt Bewig has reported on AllGov, on Monday, July 23, the state of Georgia will put to death a mentally retarded man unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes and stays the execution. Attorneys for Warren Hill, a 52-year-old African American ...   read more

Quietly, the United States has reduced carbon emissions to their lowest levels in six years. But the reasons for this success may be keeping the Obama administration from touting this accomplishment.   Since 2006, the U.S. output of greenhouse...   read more